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Nearly every normal modal logic is paranormal

João Marcos

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The principal interest is philosophical: not to confine oneself to what is necessary for (current) practice, but to see what is possible by way of theoretical analysis. —Kreisel (1970). An overcomplete logic is a logic that ‘ceases to make the difference’: According to such a logic, all inferences hold independently of the nature of the statements involved. A negation-inconsistent logic is a logic having at least one model that satisfies both some statement and its negation. A negation-incomplete logic has at least one model according to which neither some statement nor its negation are satisfied. Paraconsistent logics are negation-inconsistent yet non-overcomplete; paracomplete logics are negation-incomplete yet non-overcomplete. A paranormal logic is simply a logic that is both paraconsistent and paracomplete. Despite being perfectly consistent and complete with respect to classical negation, nearly every normal modal logic, in its ordinary language and interpretation,

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The principal interest is philosophical: not to confine oneself to what is necessary for (current) practice, but to see what is possible by way of theoretical analysis. —Kreisel (1970). An overcomplete logic is a logic that ‘ceases to make the difference’: According to such a logic, all inferences hold independently of the nature of the statements involved. A negation-inconsistent logic is a logic having at least one model that satisfies both some statement and its negation. A negation-incomplete logic has at least one model according to which neither some statement nor its negation are satisfied. Paraconsistent logics are negation-inconsistent yet non-overcomplete; paracomplete logics are negation-incomplete yet non-overcomplete. A paranormal logic is simply a logic that is both paraconsistent and paracomplete. Despite being perfectly consistent and complete with respect to classical negation, nearly every normal modal logic, in its ordinary language and interpretation,

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The principal interest is philosophical: not to confine oneself to what is necessary for (current) practice, but to see what is possible by way of theoretical analysis. —Kreisel (1970). An overcomplete logic is a logic that ‘ceases to make the difference’: According to such a logic, all inferences hold independently of the nature of the statements involved. A negation-inconsistent logic is a logic having at least one model that satisfies both some statement and its negation. A negation-incomplete logic has at least one model according to which neither some statement nor its negation are satisfied. Paraconsistent logics are negation-inconsistent yet non-overcomplete; paracomplete logics are negation-incomplete yet non-overcomplete. A paranormal logic is simply a logic that is both paraconsistent and paracomplete. Despite being perfectly consistent and complete with respect to classical negation, nearly every normal modal logic, in its ordinary language and interpretation,

Key concepts: Negation, Paraconsistent logic, Multimodal logic, Negation as failure, Autoepistemic logic, Mathematics, Modal logic, Normal modal logic

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